Working yourself into the ground
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Working yourself into the ground

“All jobs bring honor and nobility, even work that is socially discounted or demeaned,’ read a US Labor Day message I once read. A new exhibition, Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights, looks at the underside of that message.

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It’s a family affair
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It’s a family affair

You know you’ll get strong meat when a Suzan-Lori Parks play is on the menu. The Book of Grace is no exception.

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The drama of May 35th
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The drama of May 35th

May 35th is a play about a date that doesn’t exist, on a subject that in China is taboo, presented by a group many of whom must conceal their real names.

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A fatal accident that binds two Sudanese women
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A fatal accident that binds two Sudanese women

Goodbye Julia Is perfect proof that the personal is political. It is the story of two women whose lives are intimately entwined after an accident in which one accidentally kills the other’s son in a road accident.

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Spotlight on the motives of Western aid workers
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Spotlight on the motives of Western aid workers

Multiple Casualty Incident is about three people taking part in a series of role-plays in London as preparation for being sent abroad to deal with an emergency in a refugee camp in the Middle East.

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The music that changed Britain
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The music that changed Britain

Beyond the Bassline: 500 Years of Black British Music is on show at the British Library. Wait: make that 523 years, because John Blanke, a royal trumpeter in the courts of Henry VII and Henry VIII, probably arrived in 1501.

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India v England: time to dismantle some of the rules?
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India v England: time to dismantle some of the rules?

Swearing, sex talk, insults, epithets, rivalry: a group of World Cup players row, spill secrets and get on each others’ nerves. These women are all Indian and English cricketers, and their shared impatience make for a lively first act of Testmatch at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond.

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